Conveyer-belt.



C. F. SCHEPMANN.

CONVEYER BELT.

APPLlCATlON FILED APR. 21. I914.

Patented Aug. 24, 1915.

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CHRISTIAN F. SCHEPMA'NN, OF ELLIS, KANSAS.

CONVEYER-BELT.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 2%, 1915.

Application filed April 21, 1914. Serial No. 833,482.

To all whom it may concern 'Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN F. SCHEP- MANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ellis, in the county of Ellis and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Conveyer-Belts; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present invention relates to conveyer belts or aprons of the flight or slatted type, and hasfor its purpose to provide a construction wherein the slats and belt mutually reinforce each other to the end of generally increasing the efliciencyand utility of the conveyer.

i A further purpose of the invention is to construct a novel form of slat or flight for the belt which will avoid collection of the material conveyed, and one that may be readily removed and replaced when the same has become worn or otherwise mutilated; or whenit is desired to replace a slat of one type with a slat of another kind.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the novel details of construction and combinations of parts more fully hereinafter disclosed and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings forming'a part of this application, and in which similar reference symbols indicate corresponding parts in the several views: Figure 1 is a top plan view of a section of the conveyer belt. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same. Figs. 3, 4 and 5 are top plan views of different forms of slats; and Figs. 6, 7 and 8 are transverse sectional views, respectively, of the slats illustrated in Figs. 3, 4 and 5.

Referring to the construction in detail, the conveyer or apron consists of a pair of straps or strips 1, formed of leather or other appropriate material, and whose respective ends will carry .the means necessary for forming the belt into an endless conveyer.

A belt'or strip 2, formed preferably of canvas, overlies and connects the pair of side strips 1, and is secured thereto through the means of the flight or slat attaching devices, which will be described further. The belt 2 is of the same length as the supporting side strips 1, and forms the usual supporting surface for the material to be conveyed after the well known manner.

A plurality of slats or flights are secured to the belt proper 2 to carry the material in the form of piles, as with conveyer belts generally. Each slat consists of a sheet metal strip 3 having inturned side edges 4 that provide channel ways or slots to receive the flanges 5 of the trough-shaped member 6, which likewise is constructed of sheet metal. The slats or flights so built up are disposed against the belt surface 2 after the manner shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and are secured to the pair of side strips 1 by means of a pair of rivets 7 which pass through the slat-sections, the'belt 2,: and the side strip, and the ends of said rivets are upset against the slat member 6 and the strip 1, as indicated at 8 and 9, respectively.

A metallic strip 10 is'located against the inner surface of the belt 2, and in the position immediately opposite the location of the-slat member 3, and each strip 10 in this manner reinforces its respective slat and is secured by the pair 'of rivets 7, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. In addition to the pair of rivets 7, at the ends of each slat, as many intermediate rivets 11 as may be desired may be used.

In the arrangement shown in Figs. 3 and 6, the slat of a base piece 12 has inturned side edges 13 providing grooves for the flanges 14 of the part 15.

the arrangement shown in' Figs. 4 and 7, the construction is similar to that illustrated in Figs. 3 and 6, excepting that the edges 16 of the base piece 17 are turned more inwardly to receive the complementary formed flanges 18 of the top piece 19.

In Figs. '5 and 8', the construction of the base piece 20 is substantially identical with the art 17 (Figs. 4 and 7), except that in the ormer there is a slightly inset portion. The part 21 is, in this instance, of more pronounced rectangular design in cross section.

' It will be seen from the foregoing that, in

providing a belt or apron with this type of slats, a substantial construction of endless conveyer is obtained; one which will have all of the flexibility required; and one wherein there will be no crevices or other openings for the collection or lodgment of the material'being conveyed.

It is obvious that those skilled in the art may vary the details of construction and 1 arrangement of parts without departing from the spirit of my invention, and there fore I do not wish to be limited to such features except as may be required by the claim. 5 I claim In a conveyer belt, the combination of a supporting body; and a slat mounted on said body, comprising a channeled strip; a trough-shaped strip having flanges fitting 10 within said channeled strip; and rivets pass- ,curing' said slat, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, afiix my signature, in presenceof two witnesses.

CHRISTIAN F. SCHEPMANN.

Witnesses: RAY L. SHIMP, AN'roN A. KOERNER. 

